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_005457204	Lord, Daniel A. (Daniel Aloysius), 1888-1955.	Christ and his Church : these two are one	1934		.txt	text/plain	8319	386	75	All the so-called difficult mysteries and dogmas of the Church are simply repetitions of the teachings of Christ: The Holy Trin- ity, the Blessed Sacrament, the mystical union of vine and branches in the one Mys- tical Body of Christ, the relative importance of soul and body and of time and eternity, the impossibility of winning heaven without the continued help of God—known as grace — the fact of hell, the supremacy of the successors of St. Peter, to whom were given the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the necessity of prayer and penance, the endur- ing character of marriage, the value of per- sonal purity, and poverty of spirit, contempt for riches—go down the list, and you’ll find that the main dogmas of the Church are simply endless repetitions of the doctrines of Jesus Christ, spoken in unchanged terms by the voice of the Church, which learned to speak as it listened to the voice of Christ. New Dogmas “The same type of people who grew impatient with the doctrines of Jesus Christ and said, contemptuously or reluctantly, ‘This is a hard saying and who can hear it?’ today grow impatient with the dogmas of the Church.	cache/_005457204.txt	txt/_005457204.txt